Family Tree

Soldato
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ok atm my mother is obsessed with finding out as much as pos about our family tree going through hers and my step-dads line. What I want to do is make a webpage interface for it.

Now I know there are dozens of sites where you spend hours putting in all the details and all you get is "persons name etc" click to see their parents, siblings, children etc. but what I want is a way to display th entire family tree in one big webpage, and maybe have extra details if you click a persons name.

Now this isnt just a case of wipping up something simple in mspaint and mapping the picture as click hotspots etc, cause my mother has lines traced back to the 1600's and some of the branches have 16 children per generation, so this tree will be BIG.

Now I am hoping there is a non-picture way that I can do this, so its small loading etc and would just build the lines between people and the people themselves instead of a massive jpeg or something, but I have never seen anything that can do that.

This would be a matter of personal pride for my family and a demonstration of our history etc, so I would love to get it working.

Any ideas?
 
I'm guessing you don't have any web development skills, but if you do this would be a quite good project to get you started - it always helps when you have a genuine reason for wanting to learn stuff.

In short, knock up a PHP (or ASP or whatever) page that gets all the information from a mysql database, and then output it onto the page however you like (a sloppy but easy way would be to use nested tables).
 
I have limited HTML experiance, but so does anyone really. Any chance you can knock up a quick demo page of just say arents and 2 kids so I can see and reverse engineer it?
 
oxygene said:
I have limited HTML experiance, but so does anyone really. Any chance you can knock up a quick demo page of just say arents and 2 kids so I can see and reverse engineer it?

lol, Im really sorry to do this but it made me laugh. They are called Aunts, not Arents. Sorry to be spelling police but it made me laugh as I said :D
 
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